February 24, 1960 (8 pages)

paceman ? 2 =< Sree, its 3 eye ae ONDE’ ION STUDIC Lf fi it A erat ata ea? BOM Le pe 8 ————__ eS 19 Nevada Coun Vol. 2 No. 8. Published Weekly 10¢ A Copy THE PAPER WITH i i A THE PICTURES OLYMPICS BOUND. . .this busload of Nevada Union High students is one of three that carried members of the school chorus to opening day ceremonies at the VISTTORS -ENROUTE.<Students, Lola's Grotto in Gra fora 5:30 a.m. breakfast enroute to opening day ceremonies at the Olympics. Harry and Lola Holtzman opened early by arrangement with the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce to accomodate some 50 of them, and faculty members of the Red Bluff High School paused at ss Valley Citizen. the crowd. greeted by Jim Allen, Valley chamber vice-president, and Thelma Bond, chamber secretary. The group had spentthe night at Marysville, and visibly enjoyed the ham andeggs as wellas thé chamber kits prepared for them by the city representatives--including copies of The Eighth Winter Olympics. They left Grass Valley shortly after 5 a.m., returning about 9 p.m. The group was Grass SMART 'WILL HEAD 4th FETE Mosco Smart, Nevada City supervisor, Monday night accepted general chairmanship of the 1960 4th of July Celebration tobe held in Nevada City. Appointment was made by Marv Haddy, chamber of commerce president, who also announced a “kick off dinner" April 18 at the Victorian Room of the National Hotel. Appointed to an executive committee for the celebration were Bert See, Bill Briggs, Chick Thomas, Hal _Almanist, and ludge. Verke Gray. Chairman Smart announced that he will name sub-committees to work on various phases of the celebration with in the next two weeks. Plans are now under consideration involving the large prize awarded to one lucky visitor to the festivities. Nevada City, ) we FULL-TIME PLANNER, COUNTY First Day By TYLER MICOLEAU (Editor's Note: Tyler Micoleau, local author of books on skiing, is a former ski insturctor at Squaw Valley, Sugar Bowl and Yosemite. This report was typed late at ; night after opening day. ) It was snowing. Went up to Squaw Valley against my better judgement. I have been on Highway 40 when blowing snow dampened. the distrib-; utor and the whole thing conked out including the wipers. I have been there when the plows couldn't handle it and when trucks jacknifed crosswiseto the road and the people who could get backto Truckee got back and spent the next two days there instead of Carmel or. San Francisco or wherever. These thoughts in mind I took theGreyhound outof Colfax. I felt I must have been right when beyond the summitI saw anew Chevrolet hung out over empty space, one fender caught luckily upon a rock, It was a slow trip to Truckee. We missed the connecting bus to Squaw. Found a taxi and six companions and set out gaily. ‘Eu sy guing as tere was no traffic though the snow was coming in horizontally and clogging the wipers. Everybody jolly until we were within ahalf mileof the]_ valley entrance when we joined a solid line crawling forward. Fifteen minutes for the next quarter mile. Sirens (continued on page 4 A) Nevada Irrigation District manager Edwin Koster declared this week that "The future of this area is tied up with recreation." However, he madeit clear in an interview with the Citizen designed to clarify for the public N.I, D, 's position on recreation, especially regarding the proposed NIDPG&E development of Yuba and Bear River waters, that “the NID has no legal responsibility to do anything about recreation, " Koster went onto point out that although he anda number of the NID directors strongly favor making provision for recreation, fish and wildlife in the proposed $40 million dollar NID-PG&E project, "up tonow no one has urged us to do anything about recreation." Koster stated he had planning commissions of Nevada or Placer counties on the subject, nor had he heard from local sportsmen's and conservation groups. (The Citizen has editorialized twige regarding the NID and recreation. ) In response to questions, Koster made the following additional points; 1, The NID has not as yet made any definite plans to carry on recreational, fish and wildlife development in conjunction with the NIDPG&E project. 2. Ifrecreational development did take place, the problem of jurisdiction would have to be ironed out. Recreation areas could possibly be not heard anything from theRECREATION NOT ND. FUNCTION, EXPLAINS IN INTE KOSTER VIEW -administered by a "countywide recreation department," by the NID, the state divison of beaches and parks, or by other agencies. 8. TheNID has not sought advice on recreational de-. velopment from the Depaitment of fish and game, the division of beaches and parks, or other state or federal agencies directly concerned with recreation ---although Koster does plan to meet with state fish and game personnel later this month to iron out the problem of making fish releases. below the proposed Chicago Park powerhouse. 4, The immediate and pres,Sing requirement in providing for recreation development is the purchase of land around the reservoirs which might eventually be used for recreation purposes. "As things stand now," Koster stated, “we are assuming that reservoir land will be bought in sections." This would mean that there would usually be a freeboard of land surrounding reservoirs, since section lines do not necessarily parallel shorelines. However, itis possible that in a given area the NID would not own sufficient land above the shore. line for adequate recreational development. In this case provisions would have to be made somehow for the purchase of additional land. 5. The NID has~ not attempted to locate potential recreation areas within ithe Yuba -Bear river project. 6. The financing of recre(Continued on page 4) MASTER PLAN IS REVEALED Brunker Tells Plans Of Commission , Weston W. Brunker, chairman of the Nevada County Planning Commission, last week told county supervisors that a zoning master plan for commission. He also informed the supervisors that the services of a full-time planning consultant the county's increasing growth -population and otherwise. Brunker's-report on planning commission thinking came as the result of a recommendation by Supervisor Henry Loeher that a master zoning plan be drawn up. Loeher suggested obtaining information about master planning on a countywide basis from Los Angeles and Sacramento counties. Activity along the master planning front followed closely the resignation of A.T. Parsons as planning consultant (a part-time position in the past ) becauseof health reasons, Parsons recently emphasized the need for county masterplanning and for the hiring of a full-time consultant. Ina Citizen interview, he said last month, “The county doesn't seem to realize what it's-up againsty >" Parsons cited a statewide “explosion of population" already beginning to affect Nevada County, with more impact due in the near future. Supervisors also face other expansion problems. County Courthouse, county jail facilities and Truckee branch facilities are on the agenda (Continued on page 4) Saturday, March5, willsee the first annual sled dog race sponsored by the Mother Lode Sled Dog Club at Pla-vada Hills ski area, as local sled dog drivers trek to the highway 40 site in hopes of winining one or more of the prizes and trophies. The Mother Lode Sled Dog_ Club is an informal organization of arctic dog lovers; membership includes families from North San Juan in the north to Murphys in the south. Under the leadership of Lee Fishback, the March 5 races will be run with members sjacting as both officials and participants. Prominent in the success of the sled dog race are many supporters from Nevada City and Grass Valley, including Yuba River Lumber Company, [Hobby House Office Equip,jment, and Ridge Feed and a. Supply--all of which have 44. offered trophies and prizes for @} the March 5 event winners. Race manager for the Hl Mother Lode Sled Dog Club is . MiFishback, who came to Ne. vada City to estabjish his NC Chamber Head Appoints Committees Nevada City Chamber of Commerce President, Marv Haddy, last week announced committee appointments for the current year, They are as follows: policy and bylaws, Dick Knee and Paul Bergemann; city improvement, Woody Smith and Gu¥Dimmin; industrial development, Edwin Furano and WilliamGhidotti:; recre,ation and tourist trade, Hal Almquist and David Osborne. Park and playgrounds, Steve Hildebrand and L. Painter; plaza improvement; John Sbaffi and Al Shirley merchants committee, Emmett Gallagher and John Van Dyke; membership, Florence Kendrick, Nadine Gustofson and Lola McLaughlin. Program and membership meetings, Willard Rose and Stan Halls; finance, Ralph Buchannan and Dick Worth; publicity, Peter Ingram and Dean Thompson; highways and transportation, Charles Kitts, Al Shirley and Mosco Smart; directional signs and tourist guides, Rev. Findley and Steve Hildebrand; Fourth of July, Mosco Smart. Christmas, Judge Verle Gray and Bruce McKenzie; civic promotion, hunting and fishing, gold panning, P. Robinson and Howard Wilcox; board of trade booklet, David Osborne. kennel of sled dogs in 1957. Fishback was one of the or. ganizers ofthe Big Bear Val (im. me: +a ¢ ley Sled Dog Derby in southern California, and after spending some time in the Sierra Nevada noted the excellence of the terrain for a sled dog race event--and the lack of such an event. The arrival of the Charles Emrichs and their "Nanook" Siberian Husky kennel in Nevada City, coupled with a rise of interest among dog. owners in surrounding areas, made it possible to lay concrete plans for a sled dog race, With the cooperation of Dick Read, manager of thel. l Pla-vada Hills ski area, al} course was planned and publicity begun. Regardless of the fact that the Mother Lode Sled Dog Club comprises only ten families, interest in the March 5. races has increased to the point that teams are expected to compete as far * away as Utah, Oregon, and: Southern California, besides from Carson City, Truckee, and closer points. Race officials are as folOws: manager and trail chairman, Lee Fishback, Nevada City; publicity director, Virginia Emrich of Nevada City ; program and trophy chair HUSKY RACES.Shown preparing for the March 5 husky teamraces at Pla-Vada on Highway 40, are (top) Lee Fishback and his Zima Husky Dog team. Chief local By ee os man, Mel Fishback, Nevada City. : s Official announcer will be Harmon Bellmer. Official timer is Don Ellsworth of North San Jaun, and entries wiil betaken at the race site by Rae Ellsworth. Spectators are cordially invited to cheer the dogs and Sled Dog Races Slated March 5 At Pla-Vada drivers in the stiff contest at Pla-vada. Admission to the event is free; refreshments will be available at the starting line. Those interested in watching the races will find ample parking space for their cars at Kingvale, a short walk from the course, besides’ at Pla-t vada Hills itself. ‘ opponent will be (bottom) Chuck Emrich. and his Nanook Siberian Husky team. Other teams from Northern California will participate. the county is planned by the © will be necessary bécause of . — —

paceman ? 2 =< Sree, its 3 eye ae ONDE’ ION STUDIC Lf fi it A erat ata ea? BOM Le pe 8 ————__ eS 19 Nevada Coun Vol. 2 No. 8. Published Weekly 10¢ A Copy THE PAPER WITH i i A THE PICTURES OLYMPICS BOUND. . .this busload of Nevada Union High students is one of three that carried members of the school chorus to opening day ceremonies at the VISTTORS -ENROUTE.<Students, Lola's Grotto in Gra fora 5:30 a.m. breakfast enroute to opening day ceremonies at the Olympics. Harry and Lola Holtzman opened early by arrangement with the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce to accomodate some 50 of them, and faculty members of the Red Bluff High School paused at ss Valley Citizen. the crowd. greeted by Jim Allen, Valley chamber vice-president, and Thelma Bond, chamber secretary. The group had spentthe night at Marysville, and visibly enjoyed the ham andeggs as wellas thé chamber kits prepared for them by the city representatives--including copies of The Eighth Winter Olympics. They left Grass Valley shortly after 5 a.m., returning about 9 p.m. The group was Grass SMART 'WILL HEAD 4th FETE Mosco Smart, Nevada City supervisor, Monday night accepted general chairmanship of the 1960 4th of July Celebration tobe held in Nevada City. Appointment was made by Marv Haddy, chamber of commerce president, who also announced a “kick off dinner" April 18 at the Victorian Room of the National Hotel. Appointed to an executive committee for the celebration were Bert See, Bill Briggs, Chick Thomas, Hal _Almanist, and ludge. Verke Gray. Chairman Smart announced that he will name sub-committees to work on various phases of the celebration with in the next two weeks. Plans are now under consideration involving the large prize awarded to one lucky visitor to the festivities. Nevada City, ) we FULL-TIME PLANNER, COUNTY First Day By TYLER MICOLEAU (Editor's Note: Tyler Micoleau, local author of books on skiing, is a former ski insturctor at Squaw Valley, Sugar Bowl and Yosemite. This report was typed late at ; night after opening day. ) It was snowing. Went up to Squaw Valley against my better judgement. I have been on Highway 40 when blowing snow dampened. the distrib-; utor and the whole thing conked out including the wipers. I have been there when the plows couldn't handle it and when trucks jacknifed crosswiseto the road and the people who could get backto Truckee got back and spent the next two days there instead of Carmel or. San Francisco or wherever. These thoughts in mind I took theGreyhound outof Colfax. I felt I must have been right when beyond the summitI saw anew Chevrolet hung out over empty space, one fender caught luckily upon a rock, It was a slow trip to Truckee. We missed the connecting bus to Squaw. Found a taxi and six companions and set out gaily. ‘Eu sy guing as tere was no traffic though the snow was coming in horizontally and clogging the wipers. Everybody jolly until we were within ahalf mileof the]_ valley entrance when we joined a solid line crawling forward. Fifteen minutes for the next quarter mile. Sirens (continued on page 4 A) Nevada Irrigation District manager Edwin Koster declared this week that "The future of this area is tied up with recreation." However, he madeit clear in an interview with the Citizen designed to clarify for the public N.I, D, 's position on recreation, especially regarding the proposed NIDPG&E development of Yuba and Bear River waters, that “the NID has no legal responsibility to do anything about recreation, " Koster went onto point out that although he anda number of the NID directors strongly favor making provision for recreation, fish and wildlife in the proposed $40 million dollar NID-PG&E project, "up tonow no one has urged us to do anything about recreation." Koster stated he had planning commissions of Nevada or Placer counties on the subject, nor had he heard from local sportsmen's and conservation groups. (The Citizen has editorialized twige regarding the NID and recreation. ) In response to questions, Koster made the following additional points; 1, The NID has not as yet made any definite plans to carry on recreational, fish and wildlife development in conjunction with the NIDPG&E project. 2. Ifrecreational development did take place, the problem of jurisdiction would have to be ironed out. Recreation areas could possibly be not heard anything from theRECREATION NOT ND. FUNCTION, EXPLAINS IN INTE KOSTER VIEW -administered by a "countywide recreation department," by the NID, the state divison of beaches and parks, or by other agencies. 8. TheNID has not sought advice on recreational de-. velopment from the Depaitment of fish and game, the division of beaches and parks, or other state or federal agencies directly concerned with recreation ---although Koster does plan to meet with state fish and game personnel later this month to iron out the problem of making fish releases. below the proposed Chicago Park powerhouse. 4, The immediate and pres,Sing requirement in providing for recreation development is the purchase of land around the reservoirs which might eventually be used for recreation purposes. "As things stand now," Koster stated, “we are assuming that reservoir land will be bought in sections." This would mean that there would usually be a freeboard of land surrounding reservoirs, since section lines do not necessarily parallel

shorelines. However, itis possible that in a given area the NID would not own sufficient land above the shore. line for adequate recreational development. In this case provisions would have to be made somehow for the purchase of additional land. 5. The NID has~ not attempted to locate potential recreation areas within ithe Yuba -Bear river project. 6. The financing of recre(Continued on page 4) MASTER PLAN IS REVEALED Brunker Tells Plans Of Commission , Weston W. Brunker, chairman of the Nevada County Planning Commission, last week told county supervisors that a zoning master plan for commission. He also informed the supervisors that the services of a full-time planning consultant the county's increasing growth -population and otherwise. Brunker's-report on planning commission thinking came as the result of a recommendation by Supervisor Henry Loeher that a master zoning plan be drawn up. Loeher suggested obtaining information about master planning on a countywide basis from Los Angeles and Sacramento counties. Activity along the master planning front followed closely the resignation of A.T. Parsons as planning consultant (a part-time position in the past ) becauseof health reasons, Parsons recently emphasized the need for county masterplanning and for the hiring of a full-time consultant. Ina Citizen interview, he said last month, “The county doesn't seem to realize what it's-up againsty >" Parsons cited a statewide “explosion of population" already beginning to affect Nevada County, with more impact due in the near future. Supervisors also face other expansion problems. County Courthouse, county jail facilities and Truckee branch facilities are on the agenda (Continued on page 4) Saturday, March5, willsee the first annual sled dog race sponsored by the Mother Lode Sled Dog Club at Pla-vada Hills ski area, as local sled dog drivers trek to the highway 40 site in hopes of winining one or more of the prizes and trophies. The Mother Lode Sled Dog_ Club is an informal organization of arctic dog lovers; membership includes families from North San Juan in the north to Murphys in the south. Under the leadership of Lee Fishback, the March 5 races will be run with members sjacting as both officials and participants. Prominent in the success of the sled dog race are many supporters from Nevada City and Grass Valley, including Yuba River Lumber Company, [Hobby House Office Equip,jment, and Ridge Feed and a. Supply--all of which have 44. offered trophies and prizes for @} the March 5 event winners. Race manager for the Hl Mother Lode Sled Dog Club is . MiFishback, who came to Ne. vada City to estabjish his NC Chamber Head Appoints Committees Nevada City Chamber of Commerce President, Marv Haddy, last week announced committee appointments for the current year, They are as follows: policy and bylaws, Dick Knee and Paul Bergemann; city improvement, Woody Smith and Gu¥Dimmin; industrial development, Edwin Furano and WilliamGhidotti:; recre,ation and tourist trade, Hal Almquist and David Osborne. Park and playgrounds, Steve Hildebrand and L. Painter; plaza improvement; John Sbaffi and Al Shirley merchants committee, Emmett Gallagher and John Van Dyke; membership, Florence Kendrick, Nadine Gustofson and Lola McLaughlin. Program and membership meetings, Willard Rose and Stan Halls; finance, Ralph Buchannan and Dick Worth; publicity, Peter Ingram and Dean Thompson; highways and transportation, Charles Kitts, Al Shirley and Mosco Smart; directional signs and tourist guides, Rev. Findley and Steve Hildebrand; Fourth of July, Mosco Smart. Christmas, Judge Verle Gray and Bruce McKenzie; civic promotion, hunting and fishing, gold panning, P. Robinson and Howard Wilcox; board of trade booklet, David Osborne. kennel of sled dogs in 1957. Fishback was one of the or. ganizers ofthe Big Bear Val (im. me: +a ¢ ley Sled Dog Derby in southern California, and after spending some time in the Sierra Nevada noted the excellence of the terrain for a sled dog race event--and the lack of such an event. The arrival of the Charles Emrichs and their "Nanook" Siberian Husky kennel in Nevada City, coupled with a rise of interest among dog. owners in surrounding areas, made it possible to lay concrete plans for a sled dog race, With the cooperation of Dick Read, manager of thel. l Pla-vada Hills ski area, al} course was planned and publicity begun. Regardless of the fact that the Mother Lode Sled Dog Club comprises only ten families, interest in the March 5. races has increased to the point that teams are expected to compete as far * away as Utah, Oregon, and: Southern California, besides from Carson City, Truckee, and closer points. Race officials are as folOws: manager and trail chairman, Lee Fishback, Nevada City; publicity director, Virginia Emrich of Nevada City ; program and trophy chair HUSKY RACES..Shown preparing for the March 5 husky teamraces at Pla-Vada on Highway 40, are (top) Lee Fishback and his Zima Husky Dog team. Chief local By ee os man, Mel Fishback, Nevada City. : s Official announcer will be Harmon Bellmer. Official timer is Don Ellsworth of North San Jaun, and entries wiil betaken at the race site by Rae Ellsworth. Spectators are cordially invited to cheer the dogs and Sled Dog Races Slated March 5 At Pla-Vada drivers in the stiff contest at Pla-vada. Admission to the event is free; refreshments will be available at the starting line. Those interested in watching the races will find ample parking space for their cars at Kingvale, a short walk from the course, besides’ at Pla-t vada Hills itself. ‘ opponent will be (bottom) Chuck Emrich. and his Nanook Siberian Husky team. Other teams from Northern California will participate. the county is planned by the © will be necessary bécause of . — —